Post #283594 by hewey on Tue, Feb 6, 2007 2:12 PM

The pirate slowly progresses. Taken a little off the top to give him more of a rounded head to get away from the square tiki head look a bit. Will probably take some more off. Also made the head a bit more level too. The bandanna will cover all of this, so I don’t have to make it too clean.

Here’s the side profile. Looks much nicer eh?

With work we do regular water quality monitoring in the field. I found these palm logs in the bush at one of the sites we test at. It’s quite common for people to cut down palm trees and dump them in the bush. A few of these required scrambling down a pretty steep embankment to get them, but they were the right price! I think one might be a little rotten inside, but the rest seem okay. They’re nice and dry and ready to carve, and no splits. Wine bottle for size reference

I’ve also done some decorating in my veranda area that is both my tiki lounge and also my workshop! Just some bottles, nothing special. Look at the voodoo shack in Pirates – Dead Mans Chest to see what my inspiration was.

This is Bailey’s (new puppy) house. Got the doghouse second hand off a mate. For now it will be guarded by the moai twins. Eventually it will get a tiki diner make over, but its not a high priority.

I’ve also done a little work on the wagon. Really need to get stuck into it soon so I can sell the bug before its rego is renewed.

Kustom Kahoona

[ Edited by: hewey 2007-02-06 14:17 ]